Editing Kansas City, Missouri (section)

===After Civil War===
[[File:Junction of Main and Delaware Streets, Kansas City, Mo (NYPL b12647398-68704).tiff|thumb|The junction of Main and Delaware Streets in 1898]]
After the Civil War, Kansas City grew rapidly. The selection of the city over [[Leavenworth, Kansas]], for the [[Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad]] bridge over the [[Missouri River]] brought significant growth. The population exploding after 1869, when Hannibal Bridge, designed by [[Octave Chanute]], opened. The boom prompted a name change to Kansas City in 1889, and the city limits to be extended south and east. Westport became part of Kansas City on December 2, 1897. In 1900, Kansas City was the 22nd largest city in the country, with a population of 163,752 residents.<ref name="U.S. Census Bureau">{{cite web|title=Missouri – Race and Hispanic Origin for Selected Cities and Other Places: Earliest Census to 1990 |url=https://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |publisher=U.S. Census Bureau |access-date=December 18, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120812191959/http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0076/twps0076.html |archive-date=August 12, 2012 }}</ref>

[[landscape architecture|Landscape architect]] [[George Kessler]] shaped Kansas City into a leading example of the [[City Beautiful]] movement, with a network of boulevards and parks.<ref>{{cite web |title=Historic Sanborn Maps of Kansas City |url=http://digital.library.umsystem.edu/image/umcscsanic/title/kansas+city+missouri |publisher=[[University of Missouri]] Digital Library |access-date=March 21, 2011 |archive-date=July 16, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716001241/https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu//mu/islandora/object/mu:138690/title/kansas+city+missouri |url-status=live }}</ref> New neighborhoods like [[Southmoreland]] and the Rockhill District were conceived to accommodate the city's largest residencies of palatial proportions.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

The obsolescence of [[Kansas City Union Station#Union Depot era|Union Depot]] in West Bottoms in favor of the new [[Kansas City Union Station|Union Station]] in 1914, and the opening of the [[Liberty Memorial]] in 1923, provided two of the city's most identifiable landmarks. [[Robert A. Long]], president of the Liberty Memorial Association, was a driving force in the funding for construction. Long was a longtime resident and wealthy businessman. He built the [[R. A. Long Building]] for the [[Long-Bell Lumber Company]], his home, [[Kansas City Museum|Corinthian Hall]] (now the [[Kansas City Museum]]) and [[Longview Farm]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Further spurring Kansas City's growth was the opening of the innovative [[Country Club Plaza]] development by [[J. C. Nichols]] in 1925, as part of his [[Country Club District]] plan.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

====20th century streetcar system====
[[Streetcars in Kansas City|The Kansas City streetcar system]] once had hundreds of miles of streetcars running through the city and was one of the largest systems in the country.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcur.org/show/central-standard/2013-11-22/the-history-of-the-kansas-city-streetcar|title=The History Of The Kansas City Streetcar|website=KCUR 89.3 – NPR in Kansas City.|access-date=April 19, 2020|archive-date=May 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505063343/https://www.kcur.org/show/central-standard/2013-11-22/the-history-of-the-kansas-city-streetcar|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1903 the 8th Street Tunnel was built as an underground streetcar system through the city. The last run of the streetcar was on June 23, 1957, but the tunnel still exists.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2016-09-15/the-8th-street-tunnel-is-a-gateway-to-kansas-citys-history-but-you-probably-cant-get-in|title=The 8th Street Tunnel Is A Gateway To Kansas City's History — But You Probably Can't Get In|date=September 15, 2016|website=KCUR 89.3 – NPR in Kansas City.|access-date=April 19, 2020|archive-date=May 5, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505010844/https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2016-09-15/the-8th-street-tunnel-is-a-gateway-to-kansas-citys-history-but-you-probably-cant-get-in|url-status=live}}</ref>